We Have been Liars Season 2, New Guide We Fell Aside

SPOILER ALERT: This overview incorporates spoilers for Amazon Prime Video’s “We Have been Liars” Season 1.

The “We Have been Liars” universe expands Tuesday with the discharge of E. Lockhart‘s new novel, “We Fell Aside.”

Set in the identical world as that of the ultra-rich Sinclair household on the middle of the e-book collection “We Have been Liars,” and the Emily Alyn Lind-led Amazon’s TV collection adaptation of the identical identify, “We Fell Aside” follows a brand new set of characters which have their very own secrets and techniques to maintain and mysteries to unravel.

There’s Matilda, who’s invited to spend the summer season together with her long-lost father: a reclusive artist named Kingsley Cello. When she arrives at his seaside dwelling, Hidden Seashore, Kingsley is nowhere to be seen, however she meets her half-brother Meer, a former youngster star named Brock, and a brooding boy named Tatum who’re residing in Kingsley’s crumbling, castle-inspired property.

Whereas the second season of “We Have been Liars” is within the works from showrunners Julie Plec and Carina Adly MacKenzie and writer Lockhart producing, “We Fell Aside” affords up loads of story to tide followers of Beechwood Island over till they get to see the place the TV drama goes. And now that Cadence Sinclair is aware of her beloved cousins and childhood sweetheart — “The Liars” — died in a hearth for which she they usually had been accountable, the plan is to dive into the darkish previous of Cady’s mom and aunts, which is explored in sequel “Household of Liars.”

Right here, writer Lockhart tells Selection concerning the story on the middle of “We Fell Aside” and teases how he might connect with Season 2 of Amazon’s “We Have been Liars.”

How did you provide you with the concept for “We Fell Aside” and the way it could connect with the primary two “We Have been Liars” books?

I obtained the concept for scripting this e-book after I visited this unimaginable piece of property on Martha’s Winery, which was the summer season dwelling of an architect known as Araldo Cossutta. And I toured round this property, which was extremely lovely and falling aside. And it had an enormous round swimming pool that was crammed with leaves and algae and sludge, and it had towers, nearly like a fort. And I obtained excited to write down a basic Gothic home story that was additionally beachy. And I used to be like, “That is near this storytelling world,” however I didn’t consider it as related to “We Have been Liars”; I considered it as its personal e-book.

And I began engaged on it and on the identical time, my aspect hustle was engaged on the “We Have been Liars” TV present. So I used to be actually steeped on the earth of the TV present. We had been casting, and we’re capturing as I’m ending this e-book, and increasingly, the world of “We Have been Liars” was seeping in to “We Fell Aside,” to the purpose the place I used to be like, “Oh, that is actually a e-book in the identical universe.” So it began out as a standalone and have become a e-book in the identical universe.

The very first thing that I wish to say is it may be learn alone, however for individuals who have learn “We Have been Liars,” I believe the factor that they’re going to love essentially the most that begins near the start of the e-book is that the characters trespass over on Beechwood Island. So Matilda and her half brother, Meer, and two different boys take this boat over at night time throughout the water from Martha’s Winery to Beechwood Island, the place there was a current tragedy. And it’s a type of a ghoulish, teenage trespassing journey. And so they see the positioning of the tragedy, after which they go additional into the island, they usually go to the tennis courts, they usually go to the tiny seaside, which options lots in “We Have been Liars.” And so it’s an opportunity for folks to kind of see the world of “We Have been Liars” from a special perspective. And if folks wish to study extra Sinclair household secrets and techniques, they are going to discover them in “We Fell Aside.” However it’s its personal story.

Whereas the Gothic beachy vibe is current in “We Fell Aside,” it’s in a really completely different setting from “We Have been Liars,” regardless of them being very shut in bodily distance. What’s the importance of the variations and that juxtaposition?

In all three books, there’s a kingdom. Within the first two books on this collection, the dominion is Beechwood Island, and it’s dominated by Harris Sinclair, the patriarch, and it’s an institution kingdom, so to talk. And the dominion in “We Fell Aside” is dominated by an absent patriarch, and it’s another kingdom. It’s a home by which there’s a really clearly articulated lifestyle and set of values which can be outlined in opposition to the sorts of values which can be held by the Sinclairs within the different two books. However it’s nonetheless a kingdom, and there’s nonetheless a ruler. So it’s nonetheless thematically about deciding whether or not you’re a member of a kingdom or you aren’t a member of a kingdom, and whether or not you’ll preserve protected the secrets and techniques of that kingdom or expose them.

Are plot factors from “We Fell Aside” being included into the second season of Amazon’s “We Have been Liars”?

I believe all I’m allowed to say is that Julie Plec and Carina Adly MacKenzie have learn this e-book.

The place are issues thus far on manufacturing for Season 2? How intently will it comply with the second e-book, “Household of Liars,” as Season 1 already borrowed some from that e-book?

There’s not lots I can say, however the brand new season will fold within the story of “Household of Liars,” and on the identical time, I do know the showrunners have a bunch of methods up their sleeve in order that individuals who’ve learn “Household of Liars” will nonetheless be stunned. So with out going an entire new course, they’re nonetheless discovering new twists. And there will probably be a present storyline, so you’ll nonetheless see Caitlin FitzGerald and Candice King and Mamie Gummer again. David Morse is coming again. Joseph Zada is coming again. Emily Alyn Lind is coming again. So these characters could have a brand new storyline that may intersect with the “Household of Liars” storyline and all the brand new stuff the showrunners have provide you with.

Have you ever given steerage on the place you assume the story ought to go within the present-day storyline for Cadence, past the plot within the e-book?

I don’t assume my function on this present is steerage. I believe that I’m only a individual on the staff that’s making this present. And Julie and Carina are the showrunners and I’m excited to be on this trip with them, but it surely’s their trip.

They actually care about these characters. They make very bingeable, very entertaining tv, however they’re additionally very invested in complicated, nuanced, troublesome characters who’re going by lots. They’re not curious about simplifying or dumbing down something. They’re curious about creating an expertise for Season 2 that feels just like the expertise they delivered in Season 1 — that’s emotionally invested in large messy characters.

You could have a brand new TV collection based mostly on one in all your books within the works at Amazon’s Prime Video, “Real Fraud,” which stars “The Summer season I Turned Fairly’s” Rain Spencer. The place’s that undertaking within the improvement course of?

I believe Rain Spencer is terrific and has a very wide array as an actress. She’s very humorous, and she or he’s additionally an excellent dramatic actor. And we’ve got a showrunner named Sinead Daly, who’s the showrunner for “Midnight Solar” — Stephanie Meyer’s e-book, mainly “Twilight” from Edward’s standpoint — and that’s animated and is within the animation course of, and that’s why she is free to come back and run my present. So she’s writing the pilot, Rain is hooked up, and it’s gonna be wonderful.

This interview has been edited and condensed.